Topic Interests
Hello everyone! The readings we did for the week have inspired me to consider several topics for a research proposal. One thing I'm interested in studying is the use of memes as rhetorical digital texts/compositions, perhaps along with a focus in how they are made and interpreted and by/for whom. I am also interested in researching how memes evolve. I also am interested in digital advertising as rhetoric and the environmental/network/ material/technological objects through which people interact with digital ads. How do either of these digital media enable us to interact with others or with brands or with our own technology better? How do they affect what we know, learn, think, do, and value? I'm still in the formative stages. I haven't yet given much thought to how I would structure or test a hypothesis regarding these topics, or even what my hypothesis should be. Seems like a literature review is in order before learning how I could make a contribution to the study of eit...